I'll second this. It will run you more than 50 bucks but for a geeky toy it is pretty hard to beat. Making your own original machines can be challenging enough that you can get involved in helping out too.
Perhaps you mean the Declaration of Independence? The Constitution was adopted by the Constitutional Convention in 1787, 4 years after the end of the Revolutionary War and the signing of the Treaty of Paris in 1783.
The diameter is 300 feet but the radius is the size of the blade, 150. The center of the circle the blades will sweep is 250 feet high. With a 150 foot blade, the tip will swing 100 feet above the water at the lowest, and 400 feet off the water at the highest.
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I'll second this. It will run you more than 50 bucks but for a geeky toy it is pretty hard to beat. Making your own original machines can be challenging enough that you can get involved in helping out too.
a = (1g^2 + 1.196g^2)^.5
= 2.196^.5 g
1^2 plus 1.196^2 does not equal 2.196.
Here is a link to a Universe Today story outlining the difficulties of landing on Mars. This is mostly about a manned mission but it does specifically reference the MSL. http://www.universetoday.com/2007/07/17/the-mars-landing-approach-getting-large-payloads-to-the-surface-of-the-red-planet/
Perhaps you mean the Declaration of Independence? The Constitution was adopted by the Constitutional Convention in 1787, 4 years after the end of the Revolutionary War and the signing of the Treaty of Paris in 1783.
The diameter is 300 feet but the radius is the size of the blade, 150. The center of the circle the blades will sweep is 250 feet high. With a 150 foot blade, the tip will swing 100 feet above the water at the lowest, and 400 feet off the water at the highest.